/lit/ - Literature

>>23112167
>I've heard that Hofmann translation is censored of "aggressive nationalism" (!?). I don't want some censored version so how bad is it? Still okay to read?
It's not censored. It's based on an edition that Jünger himself released. He was perfectly willing.
>I've also noticed that for some reason there is Penguin Classics and Penguin Modern Classics version of Storm of Steel, I wonder why that is? Is there any difference between these two editions from Penguin?
They use the same translation. The modern classics one is the UK version, I believe.

>>23112167
Read it in German.

>>23112174
>Reading a Post-WW2 Translation of a work written prior to WW2

Jünger himself revised SoS in major ways like a dozen times during his career. In a way, yeah, it is a completely different novel, but every revision was done by him, of his own volition.

>>23112227
It's okay, you can read Creighton's version or go full purist and read the first German edition. Hoffmann's translation is better than Creighton's, though.

>>23112246
I learned to read German for this exact reason, specifically the huge amount of writings that remains untranslated and purposefully so.